Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-4335 (gdm)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: gdm-2.32.1-2.fc14 
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Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:20:19 +0000
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-4335
2011-03-29 19:11:48
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Name        : gdm
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 2.32.1
Release     : 2.fc14
URL         : http://download.gnome.org/sources/gdm
Summary     : The GNOME Display Manager
Description :
GDM provides the graphical login screen, shown shortly after boot up,
log out, and when user-switching.

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Update Information:

This update addresses a local root exploit.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Mar 31 2011 Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com> 2.32.1-2
- Add big upower support which was mistakenly dropped.
- Fix changelog mess up.
* Mon Mar 28 2011 Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com> 2.32.1-1
- Update to 2.32.1 (CVE-2011-0727)
  Resolves: #691496
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #691496 - CVE-2011-0727 gdm: privilege escalation vulnerability [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691496
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update gdm' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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